Two medical center employees were arrested and charged with federal crimes after they allegedly assaulted Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents while attempting to prevent them from capturing an illegal alien who was hiding there.

Bill Essayli, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, shared details on the situation after several social media posts falsely painted the illegal alien in question as an “innocent landscaper” and said that he had been arrested in the middle of a surgical procedure.

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“Get your hands off of him! You don’t even have a warrant for him.”

Trump’s masked Gestapo invades a surgical center to grab an innocent landscaper as medical staff tell him to leave their private facility.

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— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) July 11, 2025

“My office has filed federal criminal charges against Jose de Jesus Ortega, 38, of Highland, and Danielle Nadine Davila, 33, of Corona, who are accused of assaulting and interfering with an ICE investigation earlier this month at a surgery center in San Bernardino County,” Essayli said, naming the two employees who had attempted to physically bar ICE agents from doing their jobs.

“The media originally reported that the illegal alien was taken during a medical appointment,” Essayli continued. “That was false. The illegal alien arrested inside the surgery center was not a patient. He ran inside for cover and these defendants attempted to block his apprehension by assaulting our agents.”

“It doesn’t matter who you are or where you work, if you assault our agents or otherwise interfere with our operations, you will be arrested and charged with a federal crime,” he concluded.

Essayli discussed the situation further with Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin.

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NEW: US Attorney @USAttyEssayli joined me to discuss his decision to arrest two SoCal medical workers on federal charges of interfering w/ ICE.

“The politicians in California have emboldened people to stand up to ICE, they think it’s okay to interfere or obstruct,” Essayli said.… pic.twitter.com/wV6mfKZPQc

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) July 25, 2025

“The politicians in California have emboldened people to stand up to ICE, they think it’s okay to interfere or obstruct,” Essayli said. “We’ve said this over and over again, if you get in our way, if you lay a hand on a federal agent, you will be arrested and you will be charged.”

Melugin asked whether federal charges were an overreach in situations like these, but Essayli’s answer was an emphatic “no.”

“It’s the opposite. We have to charge these cases. We have to set an example. We have to enforce the rule of law. Federal agents are off limits. Do not touch them,” he said.

A BBC presenter and transgender activist has launched a “transgender visibility” campaign that could include transgender adults asking young children to accompany them to the bathroom.

Dr. Ronx Ikharia, who’s described as a “black, non-binary, transmasculine emergency doctor,” calls the campaign “Safe With Me.” Individuals are asked to wear badges to make their trans “allyship” visible. Then, trans-identifying people can ask people wearing the badges to accompany them to the bathroom or other sex-segregated space that does not match their sex, out of hopes they won’t be asked to leave.

“I have often been kicked out of toilets because people don’t know where to place me,” the activist said. “But when I’m with someone, it happens less.”

Ikharia wants the campaign to be “everywhere,” including in schools.

“I want this to be everywhere. At schools, in NHS (National Health Service) settings, at festivals, in shops,” she said. “The trans community deserve to feel safe! Not just protected by law but actively welcomed and this badge is one small way we can all help make that happen.”

Ikharia says she launched the campaign in light of the United Kingdom’s highest court ruling in April that the legal definition of “woman” is based on biology and does not include trans-identifying men who say they are women.

The British Supreme Court ruled that the meaning of “woman” in equality legislation is a “biological woman and biological sex,” and the “concept of sex is binary, a person is either a woman or a man,” The Daily Wire reported at the time.

“Toilets are one of the most dangerous of these spaces,” Ikharia said, following the ruling.

The campaign has drawn criticism, specifically for how it could endanger children. Helen Joyce, who’s the director of advocacy at the human rights charity Sex Matters, called the campaign a “safeguarding catastrophe.”

“Asking children to approach adult strangers and take responsibility for their safety in toilet facilities puts children at obvious and serious risk,” Joyce told The Telegraph. “As for adults wearing ‘safe with me’ badges that children are supposed to believe, it’s hard to think of a more irresponsible idea.”

Charlie Kirk had a similar critique, posting on X, “A British government employee wants adult biological men approaching school-age girls to ask them for accompaniment to a women’s bathroom, on the grounds that this makes them less likely to be kicked out of them for not being a real woman because, as the thinking goes, they have a child vouching for their gender.”

“You have no idea how lucky we are to have won last November,” he added.

A taxpayer-funded BBC employee in the UK is leading a campaign to distribute bright yellow badges to schoolchildren. These “ally” badges would invite transgender adult strangers to approach the children wearing them to ask the children to accompany them to a bathroom.

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— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 24, 2025

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